Fence.



PATENTED'0GT-13, '1903.

No.. 741,095. 1 .y

W. G. BAYLESS & J. S. DALLAS. FENCE.

APPLIUATION FILED APB.. 10. 1903,

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No MODEL'. v

PATENT@ 00113, 1903.

W. C. BAYLBss- J. s.1 DALLAS.

FENCE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 10, 1903A NO MODEL. 2 SHEETS-SHEBKT 2.

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UNITED STATES atented October 13, 1903..

PATENT OEETCE.

WILLIAM C. BAYLESS, OF JEFFERSON CITY, AND JACKSON S. DALLAS, OFKNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE.

j FENCE.

SPCFCATIO forming part of Letters Patent No. 741,095, dated October 13,190. Application filed IApril 10; 1902i. Serial No; 152,035. (No model.)

'o @ZZ zfton/t may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM C. BAYLESS, residing at Jeerson City, inthe county of Jefferson, and JACKSON S. DALLAS, residingV atKnoXville,KnoX county, State of Tennessee,

citizens ofthe United States, have invented new and useful Improvementsin Fences," ofwhich the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in fencesof the type in which the rails, upright cleats, lateral braces,l and`other component parts are si-icured'tofV gether by means of wire, andthe novelty. re#4 sides in the particular manner of wiring thef saidparts of the fence together.

It is the object of our invention to provide'V a fence which may beeconomically constructi ed and which shall be strong and durable andadapted to resist the attack of stock and the force of the wind.

In order that the invention may be fully understood, we have illustratedthe saine in the accompanying drawings, in which-'- Figurel isperspective view illustrating a portion of a fence constructed accordingto our invention. Fig. 2 is a partial plan view illustrating the mannerof wiring employed at the top of the fence.- Fig. 3 is a detail viewillustrating one form of loop and stay-wires employed at the center ofthe upright cleats. Fig; s is a transverse sectional view illustratingadditional means of binding the rails together. Fig. 5 is a detail Viewillustrating a modication of the loop and stay-wires shown in Fig. 3.Fig. 6 is a detail view illustrating the manner of wrapping the wireabout a stake and adjacent brace, and Fig. 7 is a partial plan viewillustrating a modification lof the mannerV of wrapping the top wireabout same and twisted at its ends. A cleat 2 is inserted about seveninches at its lower end lthrough the wire loop 5 from opposite direc-Ytions on the respective sides of the fence and 5 5';

thenraised upwardly and toward each other to bring them to an uprightposition, as

shown, this operation Vpartly twisting the loop 5 and binding the twoends of the lowermost rails l of adjacent panels securely to 6o getherand binding also the lower ends of the cleats rl-firmly against saidrails. The end of one rail only may be used in this lower loop and theend of the ground-rail of the adjacent panel forced down upon this after65 Ythe cleats are raised to Va perpendicular position. Other rails arenow placed at their ends one upon the other in the usual manner until,say, three rails have been so arranged, when a loop of wire 6 is nowpassed around -7o the two cleats 2, the rails being pressed down so asto get the loop 6 as far down on the cleats as possible. The cleats arethen drawn lirmly against the rails by means of the loop 6 and the endsof said loop are then twisted. 75 We then iill in two more rails, andthen cross the braces 8 over the topxnost rail and bind said bracestogether at their point of intersection by means of the wire loop 7. Thelower ends of these braces are spread apart, 8c so that the crotchformed will rest firmly on the upper rail and their lower ends on theground. vWe then place the riders 4: in the 'upper crotch of the braceswith their ends overlapping, as usual. The braces 3 are de- 85 signed tobe secured at each side of the fence to vthe Wire loop 6, and this maybe done in one of two ways. The wire loop 6 may be lformed'by wrappingthe wire twice around the cleats 2, and the stay-wire 8 may then be 9osecured to the upper strand-wire of the loop at one side of the fenceand passed around the braces l3, and a similar stay-wire is secured tothe lower strand-wire of the loop and secured to the opposite brace 3,this construc- 9 5 tion insuring that as the fence settles or the bracesspread apart the tension on the two strands of the loop 6 exerted by thestay-wires 8 will operate to draw the loop about the cleats 2 morefirmly. The second mode of forming ico this connection is illustrated inFig. 5, in which thewire 9 is passed one and -a half times around thecleats 2 between two of therails and its free ends secured directly tothe respective braces on opposite sides of the fence. Thus as the fencesettles or the braces 3 spread apart the tension will be directly uponthe wire 9, which will operate to draw said wire more firmly about thecleats 2. The fence is now provided with a top securing-wire 10. Thisupper securing-wire requires to be very strong and is wrapped about thecleats and braces in such manner as lto provide two strands of wire toresist pressure adapted to be exerted thereon, as explained later on.

To this end the wire 10 is passed over one cleat and crossed and placedaround the other cleat, and the two strand -wires are then broughttogether and passed under the upper end of one of the braces 3, thatadjacent to the cleats, and are then separated and looped over the upperend of the other brace. A stay-bar 11 is now inserted at its upper endbetween the wires in the crotch formed by the cleat 2 and the adjacentbrace 3 in such manner that two strands of the wire 10 will be on theupperside of said stay-bar and two strands on the lower side, and theopposite end of said stay-bar is then pressed downward and at its lowerend secured by a wire 12 to one of the other of the' rails 1. In thisoperation the tendencywillbe to raise the cleats 2 and press downwardthe braces 3, thus pressing the parts of the fence more irmly together,while at the same time, owing to the manner of wrapping the wire 10about the cleats and braces, said cleats will be firmly pressed againstthe riders 4, said riders will be rmly pressed down in the crotch of thebraces 3, and the braces 3 will have their upper ends brought firmlyagainst the riders 4. It is to be observed also that in this movement ofthe stay-bar 11 there will be no tendency to vary the relative positionsof the cleats and braces 3, the tension being exertedv in substantiallystraight transverselines. Asafurthermeansofbinding the parts of thefence firmly together we may secure to each side of the bottom loop 5 awire 13, the upper portion of which is wrapped around the upper end ofthe staybar 11 before the same is turned downward in the mannerpreviously described to bind the wire 10 aboutthe cleats and braces,whereby in this operation the wire 13 will be drawn upward, exertingpressure on the wire loop 5, tending to raise the rails against theresistance of the braces 3, thus binding the overlappingends of therails more firmly together. In addition the wire 13 tends to hold theloop 5 from slipping downward on the cleats 2, as this loop 5, it willbe understood, forms the sole support for the lower rails of the fence.

We have described the construction at one end of a panel; but it will beunderstood that the opposite end of the panel is constructed in the sameway and that the riders and rails of one panel overlap with the ridersand rails of the adjacent panel at each end in the usual manner. Inorder to further stay the fence to prevent its being blown over orknocked over by stock, we may drive into the ground a stake 14 adjacentto each brace 3 in a direction substantially at right angles to thebrace, as shown, and then secure the brace to this stake by means of awire 15, which is passed around the stake and brace in the side crotchesformed thereby and is then given one twist and the free ends passedaround the stake and brace in the upper and lower crotch, respectively,the ends of the wire being then twisted together. By this manner ofsecuring the brace to the stake all liability of movement of the bracerelative to the stake is prevented andthe brace cannot be moved by anypressure or force less than that which would be required to tear thestake bodily from the ground.

In Fig. 7 we have also shown a modification in the manner of arrangingthe upper securing-wire 10. This differs from the preceding constructionsimply in the fact that the wire is not crossed between the two cleats2; but otherwisethe arrangement is the same.

Having thus fully described-our invention, what we claim as new,anddesire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In a fence, in combination with the rails 1, cleats 2, braces 3 andriders 4, of a securing-wire looped over the upper end of one of saidbraces and around the upper ends of said cleats and having theintermediate double-strand portion passed under the upper end of theother brace, of a stay-bar inserted between the two doublestrands ofsaid securing-wire between one of the cleats and the adjacent brace, andhaving its lower end turned downward and wired to one of the rails ofthe fence, for the purpose described.

2. In a fence, in combination with the rails 1, cleats 2, braces 3 andriders 4, of a securing-wire looped about the upper end of one of saidbracesl and around the upper ends of said cleats, and crossed betweensaid cleats, and having its intermediate double-strand portion passedunder the upper end of the other brace, of a stay-bar having its upperend inserted between the double strands of said securing-wire in thespace between one IOO l'IO

of said cleats and the adjacent brace and its l lower end turneddownward and wired to one of the rails of the fence, for the purposedescribed.

3. In a fence, in combination with the rails 1, cleats 2, braces 3 andriders 4, a securingwire passed around the upper ends of said cleats andsaid braces, a lever having its upper end inserted between the strandsof said wire, and a wire connected to the lowermost rails of the fenceand to the outer end of said lever, said lever being turned downward atits inner end and wired to one of the rails of the fence whereby toproduce a tension on the rail at its outer end and to draw thesecuringwire rmly about the ends of said cleats and braces.

4. In a fence,the combination with the cleats 2 and the rails havingoverlapping ends eX- In testimony whereof we have hereunto set :otending between said cleats, of the bra-ees 3, our hands in presence oftwo subscribing wita wire passed twice around said cleats benesses.

tween two of the rails and havin@ its ends sev T cured together, andstay-wires seceured at one g' 5S end to one strand of said wire on oneside of the fence and on the other side to the other Witnesses:

strand of said wire, the opposite ends of said J. HOMER BLAOKBURY,

stay-wires being secured to said braces. l OHAS. A. TRUASS.

